Color print

Museum number:
17-390
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21170000390
Accession number:
Acc.1107 and Acc.1365
Description:
Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.
Donor:
Mrs. Laura Adams Armer and Norman E.A. Hinds
Collection place:
Ganado, Apache County, Arizona
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Maker or artist:
Laura Adams Armer
Collector:
Laura Adams Armer
Collection date:
1960
Place depicted:
Arizona and Ganado, Apache County, Arizona
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Paintings (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
ca. 1930
Accession date:
1953 and 1960
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
width 48.895 centimeters and height 76.2 centimeters
Title:
Mother Earth and Father Sky (Title Subject)
Comment:
Unframed. Arizona: Ganado. Reverse side states "From the shooting Chant of the Navajos." 17-385 - 17-404 were painted in connection with a five reel motion picture on sand painting, under the direction of Laura Adams Armer for Lorenzo Hubbell. The sand paintings from which these copies were made were done by one or more Navajo priests of the Mountain Chant, ca. 1930.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Color print, accession number 17-390, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Color print, accession number 17-390, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.

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